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Updated: June 17, 2025
But enough of Rudin; let us talk of something else. What of what's his name Pandalevsky? is he still living at Darya Mihailovna's? he concluded, turning to Bassistoff. 'Oh yes, he is still there. She has managed to get him a very profitable place. Lezhnyov smiled. 'That's a man who won't die in want, one can count upon that. Supper was over. The guests dispersed.
Natalya did not leave her mother's side, and was at times lost in thought, and then bent over her work. Bassistoff did not take his eyes off Rudin, constantly on the alert for him to say something brilliant. About three hours were passed in this way rather monotonously.
'Boys! cried Bassistoff suddenly, 'do you see that willow at the corner? let's see who can get to it first. One! two! three! and away! The boys set off at full speed to the willow. Bassistoff rushed after them. 'What a lout! thought Pandalevsky, 'he is spoiling those boys. A perfect peasant!
Bassistoff pressed Rudin's hand, and the honest boy's heart beat violently with emotion. Till they reached the station Rudin spoke of the dignity of man, of the meaning of true independence. He spoke nobly, fervently, and justly, and when the moment of separation had come, Bassistoff could not refrain from throwing himself on his neck and sobbing.
One false note in a man's eloquence, and the whole harmony is spoiled for us; but a young man's ear, happily, is not so over-fine, not so trained. If the substance of what he hears seems fine to him, what does he care about the intonation! The intonation he will supply for himself! 'Bravo, bravo! cried Bassistoff, 'that is justly spoken!
It's a remarkable fact that all Rudin's friends and admirers become in time his enemies. 'I beg you to except me from the number of such friends! interposed Bassistoff warmly. 'Oh, you that's a different thing! I was not speaking of you. 'But what did Terlahov tell you? asked Alexandra Pavlovna. 'Oh, he told me a great deal; there's no remembering it all.
Alexandra Pavlovna, to tell the truth, understood little of all that Rudin said, but was full of wonder and delight; her brother too was admiring him. Pandalevsky was watching Darya Mihailovna and was filled with envy. Pigasov thought, 'If I have to give five hundred roubles I will get a nightingale to sing better than that! But the most impressed of all the party were Bassistoff and Natalya.
'It may be, but the Little Russian will weep all the same. You speak of the "language."... But is there a Little Russian language? Is it a language, in your opinion? an independent language? I would pound my best friend in a mortar before I'd agree to that. Bassistoff was about to retort. 'Leave him alone! said Darya Mihailovna, 'you know that you will hear nothing but paradoxes from him.
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